PCI's Annual Celebration of Innovation

Celebrating Penn Inventors

Annually, PCI honors faculty who received a patent in the previous fiscal year by presenting them with a personalized patent cube. We also present special awards highlighting inventors, patents, deals, startups, and partners.

Winners of FY2017 Celebration of Innovation (held in Feb. 2018):

2017/18 Deal of the Year Award:

Drew Weissman, M.D., Ph.D. – 2017 License Restructuring Between Penn and mRNA Ribotherapeutics and Sublicenses to BioNTech and Another Large Biotechnology Company